[CMake] Provide 64bit Linux binaries

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 01:56:22PM +0100, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know this has been raised in the past, but I don't think the
> arguments for not providing the binaries are strong enough to
> warrant the hassle a cmake user has to go through to run the 32bit
> binaries on a 64bit Linux distribution.
> 
> I think requiring users to figure out how to install 32bit compat
> libraries and keeping a copy of at least libc on the machine for no
> other purpose than running cmake does not really fit the intention
> of providing binaries in the first place. As far as I understand the
> idea was to make it easier for people who cannot upgrade a
> package-manager-provided CMake (for whatever reason) to use a newer
> CMake. Requiring those people to build from source does not really
> make it easy and not all distributions install 32bit compat
> libraries out of the box (let alone older machines which have no
> such compat libs at all)
> 
> So can we please get 64bit Linux binaries for the next CMake
> release?

What 64-bit Linux distribution, that doesn't package CMake, do you
use?

/M

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